{"id":6175,"date":"2015-06-11T20:43:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T00:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=6175"},"modified":"2015-06-13T09:51:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T13:51:46","slug":"introducing-myself-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/introducing-myself-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been writing for more than 50 years, and it hasn&#8217;t gotten any easier. \u00a0But I&#8217;m one of those people who can&#8217;t not write.<\/p>\n<p>I write both prose and poetry, but I was a poet first. \u00a0A friend challenged me to do the half marathon, and I accepted the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>When I&#8217;m not writing, I&#8217;m gardening, tending chickens, or teaching kids to read and write. \u00a0I live on a small farm in the woods of northeastern Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing what everyone has to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been writing for more than 50 years, and it hasn&#8217;t gotten any easier. \u00a0But I&#8217;m one of those people who can&#8217;t not write. I write both prose and poetry, but I was a poet first. \u00a0A friend challenged me to do the half marathon,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6176,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175\/revisions\/6176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}